They've worked fine for lots of other people, so I suspect its probably something with your computer or browser.

.hc

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, derek holzer wrote:

ok ok ok, no need 2 panic... the old 'tar -xvzf' seems to do it. still, funny that they come w/o extension....

d.

derek holzer wrote:

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can anybody tell me what is up with pure-data.org's download section? anything i grab comes down without a file extension, and the ones i have tried do not unzip, bunzip2, gunzip, or anything else for that matter!!!

d.

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Hallo, Marc Lavallée hat gesagt: // Marc Lavallée wrote:

Because people should write the full name (with the extension) of all the files they made available on pure-data.org; Plone (the backend system of pure-data.org) don't use the original name of the uploaded file, but the name entered in the 'name' field.

I second that: There are a lot of files on pure-data.org that do not have an extension. I'd encourage any owners of these file to fix that. For example on http://www.pure-data.org/community/tracks/ 3 out of 6 tracks do not have file extensions.

ciao

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Hallo, derek holzer hat gesagt: // derek holzer wrote:

yeah, i don't think it is just me, and not just a computer/browser issue. but if people need to know: linux, mozilla 1.0.something...

right-click-save-as does the same thing as clicking the link. it allows you to download whatever has been uploaded. but if that thing was uploaded without a file extension, then i have to trust whatever the server tells me about the MIME type, which could be accurate or not.

"man file"

maybe a good test case would be the loopool file. it has no extension, and the server tells me it is an x-bzip2 file. however, 'bunzip2 loopool' doesn't know what to do with it, and inflates the whole archive as one big file, when it should be a directory with multiple files.

It's probably a tar.bz2-file, and you now need to "tar xf" it. Try looking at it with the "file" command, it should tell you the file format without looking at the suffix.

could the maintainers of pure-data.org either explicitily request that people remember the file extension in whatever form they fill out, or even more explicitely require them to enter the extension manually when they upload?

Well, we could use the publishing system for that. I am a reviewer and I could "reject" such files even after they are published, so that their owners wil have to fix them.

The only problem is, they could publish them again without fixing.

I think it should be good practice everywhere users upload something, to try to download it once afterwards. Then the user would've seen that something must have gone wrong.

ciao

Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__